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Stephen Leake wrote:
> Sounds like a good partial plan. How do you handle the exceptions at
> the top level?

Log the error, attempt to reconnect to the service, start
a fallback server if that fails, etc.

> In this world, exceptions are used during the debug and test phases,
> and sometimes the compiler checks are turned off for the final build,
> because we've proven that they will never fail.

Well, it's nice for you that you can stay in your little
box, but not all software is so self-contained. There are
*a lot* of situations where things work the vast majority
of the time, but sometimes don't. Those are the cases where
exception-based error handling shines.